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A 5 page summation and analysis of Alex Kotlowitz's study of two inner-city African American boys—Lafayette and Pharoah Rivers—There are No Children Here. This book outlines the horrors of the violence of living in the housing projects of Chicago, its affect on the boys, and how it produces trauma similar to that of children living in a war zone. No additional sources cited.
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However, there is also another America ,that exists alongside the world of mainstream American society. This "other" America is so foreign as to seem part of another countr!y---a country at
war--and its right here?in the heart of our largest cities. The "other" America is, of course, the public housing projects where the
poorest citizens of the US endure (to say they "live" there is too optimistic a use of this word). The "other" America forms the background for Alex Kotlowitzs in-depth
study of the lives of two boys, Lafayette and Pharoah Rivers. Kotlowitzs book There are no children here chronicles what their lives are like, and, in so doing, tells the
reader how the millions of other inner-city children also live. Lafayette (12 years old) and Pharoah (9 years old) are African Americans and live with their mother in the
crime-ridden public housing projects of Chicago. From an early age, the boys have had to learn how to survive neighborhood violence, which is an integral part of th!eir everyday lives.
A sharp sound will make the boys drop to the ground and look frantically around to see from which directions the short are coming. Soon after meeting Kotlowitz, Lafayette told
him that "if" he grows up, he wants to be a bus driver. Kotlowitz notes that the adolescent said "if" not "when." Growing up in the projects is not a
given possibility. When Kotlowitz told the boys mother, LaJoe, that he intended a book about the children in the projects, she commented that there were no children in
the projects?these children had seen too much to still be like other children. Kotlowitz immediately appreciated the significance of this statement, and his research shows it to be true.
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